Describe your perfect date.
That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th.
Because it’s not too hot and not too cold.
All you need is a llight jacket.
Sorry to say, it’s 5°C and raining here, and I spent my day extracting grade records and working on a spreadsheet to work out preliminary grades. I hope your day has been better.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Is April 25 perfect? Meteorologists disagree with ‘Miss Congeniality’
I’m somewhat south of Brissy, but this is close enough: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/australia-weather-forecasts-suddenly-identical-each-day/106603146
It wasn’t a great day for anyone in the Dardanelles in 1915.
John Morales @ 3
In Sweden we also experience ‘blocking highs’. They are usually referred to as “The Russian heat” as the hot air typically extrends from deep inside Russia to most of Scandinavia. Sweden is 1000 miles from north to south but during those summer days we get the same 30+ temperature, with exceptions for the mountain peaks near Norway. But those locations get sand flies (which get through the mosquito nets), so tourists get it even worse.
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At least Australians (with the economic resources for it) will have AC. Here the summer is too short for most people to make that investment.
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BTW there is slow but consistent progress in making cheap perovskite solar cells durable enough for production. Once engineers get past that hurdle Australia will be in a much better energy position than Europe and much of USA. I thought you deserve a bit of good news.
My brother’s birthday at June 6th coincides with the Swedish national day (which people don’t give a damn about) and the anniversary of D-Day.
It is a time of early summer (we are way further north than Mericans) and tolerable heat, with lilacs in bloom.
(If you like amateur astronomy, the northern summer is bad, as the sky never gets dark enough)
Late April sounds reasonable for someone from Rhode Island.
And it is a tough question. With the changes to the climate, it is more difficult to select a perfect date.
That is a great answer to a misogynistic question.
I want to make a joke here, but she already did.
Yeah, regardless of whether you agree with her opinion, if that’s real, I thought it was a clever way to avoid saying “My love life is none of your business.”
I did get the joke:
April 25 is indeed close to the perfect date, as it commemorates the defeat of fascism in Italy AND the end of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal. A perfect date on that perfect date would involve defeating fascism
johnson catman @1:
I had to look this up:
1. South Carolina ranks 43rd in education in the US.
2. A significant percentage of fourth graders are not proficient in reading.
3. Eighth graders show low proficiency in math.
4. High school graduation rates are concerning, with many students not graduating on time.
5. Public schools have been chronically underfunded, making it difficult to meet educational needs. See above.
6. Factors such as poverty, housing insecurity, and lack of access to healthcare contribute to educational challenges. See above.
Sadly, she did/does represent the education level of South Carolina, just as the Orange Shitgibbon accurately represents the very worst of the US morons who are also career criminals.